Finca ventures: finca ventures invests in early-stage companies that offer affordable, high-quality and life-enhancing products and services. At present, finca ventures has investments in health, fintech, agriculture, livelihoods, energy, education, water and sanitation. Finca ventures portfolio companies directly contribute to 14 of the 17 sdgs. Complementing our effort to align impact goals to the sdgs, finca ventures assesses portfolio companies across three dimensions of impact which are scale, depth and the target poverty level of end-customers. Scale and depth of impact have inherent tradeoffs. Keeping these tradeoffs in mind, finca ventures supports portfolio companies across this spectrum as it seeks to maximize product and service to increase social impact. Finca ventures supported 18 portfolio companies that delivered life-enhancing products and services in 27 countries globally in 2021.Ignitia: 1,962,641 smallholder farmers received access to local weather forecasts in west Africa.East Africa fruits: 5,004 smallholder farmers connected to 4,579 small, informal vendors in tanzania, allowing for both groups to improve their incomes.Good nature agro: 27,923 smallholder farmers (39 percent of whom are female) reached in zambia and malawi.Meridia: 123,549 hectares mapped and 8,699 smallholder farmers provided with land documentation since inception in ghana, cote d'ivoire and indonesia.Yytz: 1,037 smallholder farmers (45 percent of whom are female) received higher cashew prices in tanzania.Imalipay: 24,605 gig economy workers provided with access to savings and loan products in kenya and nigeria.Jefa: 2,580 women received access to financial literacy training in mexico.Kuunda: 12m disbursements, totaling $128m, to 105k registered mobile money agents since inception in tanzania.Kwara: 51 sacco / credit union clients fully digitized serving 65,240 end users in kenya.Mdaas global: 65,581 patients (64 percent of whom are female) gained affordable diagnostic services since 2017 in nigeria.Sisu global: 740 manual autotransfusion consumables sold through distribution partners in east Africa to be used in surgeries to recycle a patient's own blood.Sanivation: 1,089 metric tons of fecal sludge converted to fuel substitutes, saving 33,894 trees in kenya.Jibu: 333m liters of clean water provided to customers and 3,108 jobs supported through 147 franchises since 2014 in east Africa.Amped innovation: 29,964 families benefited from 2,295 mwh of clean energy in east and west Africa.Eneza education: over 11m quizzes taken by 1,199,979 active learners in kenya.Penda: 128,346 patients visited one of 21 affordable primary care clinics in kenya.Naturelock: 25.3 metric tons of food waste saved from sourcing from 800 smallholder farmers in kenya.Floatpays: 10,249 employees provided with early wage access in south Africa.

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